PLEASE do read the help page, which says
nullstring: character string to be used when reading 'SQL_NULL_DATA'
character items from the database.
^^^
so this does not apply to numeric items.
You can of course easily change numeric NAs to 0s, if you want to.
On Wed,
(1) I do read the posting guide (the fact that I missread o
missunderstood something does not imply not reading)
(2) I could change NAs to 0 (I know) but I have previously (older
versions of R and SQL*Plus) used the same select with the right output
(namely with 0s).
(3) AFAIK strange is not a
